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Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of a ballot box

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News

The early runners and riders for Labour’s Deputy Leader

Basit Mahmood
8 September, 2025

Candidates would then need to seek local party and union/affiliate nominations between Sept. 13-27 followed by a ballot of members from Oct. 8-23. That is the timetable being put before the NEC.

Paul Nowak speaking at TUC Congress
News

Keir Starmer must ‘show working people whose side’ he is on, TUC general secretary says

Chris Jarvis
8 September, 2025

Paul Nowak called for the government to scrap the two child benefit cap

Andy Burnham
News

Labour insiders set up new centre-left group backed by Andy Burnham to change party’s direction

Basit Mahmood
8 September, 2025

The aim of Mainstream, the group says is to ‘develop and champion a popular left alternative’.

Opinion

Digital ID can help rebuild trust in government and restore fairness to the economy

Patrick Hurley
7 September, 2025

‘What we can do is build a system that works for the public good – one that saves money, boosts security, fights fraud, and unlocks economic growth.’

Sian Berry speaking at the Workers' Planet event
News

Government is ‘one of the worst versions of the Labour Party we could possibly imagine’, Sian Berry tells trade unionists

Chris Jarvis
7 September, 2025

She didn’t pull her punches

Student protesters
News

TUC votes to campaign for a national education service and the abolition of tuition fees

Chris Jarvis
7 September, 2025

Trade unionists have backed a national education service ‘free at the point of use from cradle to grave’

Smear of the week – The right-wing smear campaign against Angela Rayner exposes its own hypocrisy   

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 September, 2025

Whatever your views are on Rayner and her tax affairs, it’s clear she’s long been a target of media animus, not just for her politics, but for who she is.

Right-wing media watch – The right-wing media’s dangerous martyr myth

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 September, 2025

Her case has become a lightning rod for the British and American right.

News

Women unite against far-right rhetoric linking immigration to sexual violence

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 September, 2025

The open letter condemns the far right’s “racist lies” under the guise of protecting women and girls.

News

Collapse of critical Atlantic current no longer low-likelihood – but where’s the media interest?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 September, 2025

“Why isn’t this headline news? The implications are horrifying …”

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